No, there wasn't much traction to speak of. Yes, we had fun.

We were supposed to have a rallycross today, unfortunately it's been raining for 2 days on the freshly graded field. Due to the extreme amount of mud the event was canceled. A few of us stuck around to see exactly how much traction there is in 4+" of mud. In case you were curious, the answer to that question is not very much, at all.

Dirtie, the Rallycross B210, managed to live up to its name.

But nothing slings mud like a P71 on snow tires. 

My mom had 2 b210s over the years and i have happy memories about them. Ive wanted to get another for awhile but they rarely pop up.

Also....just saying........have you seen the SBC swapped ones?

We need videos

Man that p71 is gorgeous 

fiesta54 said:

We need videos

Ask and ye shall receive. Embed still isn't working so you will have to click the link. 

Mudcross!!

I have always hated having music over the sound of the car itself in videos.

I now wish to publicly concede that I was wrong. 

Toyman01 said:

[...] Embed still isn't working so you will have to click the link. 

Mudcross!!

with the number of 'controls' classes I ended up taking in college... I got distracted from the action and started marveling at how the AIM was 'chasing the gain'... or I wonder if the sideways-slip accelerations were throwing off it's computations.  I advice more research in AIM's susceptibility drift-acceleration tracking accuracy... er... drift

In reply to Toyman01 :

That looks like a blast

Yep, we got cancelled today as well, so looks like our season is over since its unlikely to dry out at this point. We were lucky to get 7 (of our 8 scheduled) rallycrosses in this year - I've heard that a lot of Atlantic/Eastern regions (Susquehanna, AHR, Ohio?) had so much wetness they had the same issue, with some regions only having TWO events. With a month left, we've already blown away the all-time annual rain record for this area.....

Our first event was a mud-fest - pretty much all the 2WD cars were getting 4-5 people pushing at the start line to get going (slight uphill). The AWD cars were doing a lot of trench-digging....

We only ended up with 6 or our 8 events for this season. 

Floating Doc said:

I have always hated having music over the sound of the car itself in videos.

I now wish to publicly concede that I was wrong. 

The P71 is so quiet the only thing you could hear on the video was the wind blowing across the mic. And the music did seem to fit the situation. 

In reply to irish44j :

We ended up canceling 3 events due to mud. When it rains, the field we use turns to 4-6" of slop on top of clay. It gets extremely slick. The guy we rent it from also likes to play with his road grader. It works fairly well when it's dry. Not so well when it rains. 

Yeah we had quite a bit of mud ourselves...

https://www.facebook.com/braprally174/videos/1833060266803759/

My jobsite looks like that. We are doing the same thing in all kinds of excavating equipment!

SVreX said:

My jobsite looks like that. We are doing the same thing in all kinds of excavating equipment!

I'm betting that looks something like this, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H91Z5yAiUA

SVreX said:

My jobsite looks like that. We are doing the same thing in all kinds of excavating equipment!

Man, I hate job sites like that. Worst ever was the Lowes in Vidalia GA about 15 years ago. When we showed up with a E250 and trailer loaded down with door packages, the shell was built, but they hadn't started on the parking lot yet. It was an enormous field of clay and it had been raining for most of a week. The entire place was a soupy, gooey mess. I told the contractor there was no way I could get the truck to the building, much less around it to install the doors. We ended up dragging the truck and trailer inside the building with a Lull and driving around inside to install the doors. That was a miserable job all the way around. 

In reply to Toyman01 :

Vidalia was my old stomping ground. I am well familiar with sites like that. 

I am in low country SC right now, so everything is sand. Not quite as bad as the clay. But it’s super saturated. When I stepped onto it this morning, I sunk to my upper thigh!